Sexton adds firepower to Ducks
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 12/12/2009 (6060 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
NORFOLK — How about Dan Sexton?
The Anaheim Ducks winger — and recently departed Manitoba Moose — had a role in both of Anaheim’s goals in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Detroit Red Wings Friday night.
Sexton set up Saku Koivu for the first goal of the game and then scored himself with less than a minute left in the second period to make the score 2-0 Anaheim.
Alas, the Ducks rolled over in the third period and gave it up entirely in OT to fall to 11-13 on the season.
You can’t blame Sexton for the team’s troubles, however. The 22-year-old has three goals and an assist in just four games with the Ducks.
Sexton had a goal and two assists in five games with the Moose, who found him toiling in the East Coast Hockey League, before the Ducks called him up last week.
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The hockey crowds aren’t much out here — the Norfolk Admirals draw an average of 3,277 fans per game, 24th in the 29 team AHL.
And the media coverage is virtually non-existent. The venerable Virginian Pilot, a pretty good paper, doesn’t even have a reporter dedicated to covering the team, relying instead on a freelancer to cover home games only.
(And not even all of those. The paper is sending no one to cover tonight’s game, purportedly because of early deadlines).
But I’ve got to give the Admirals this — they have maybe the coolest looking arena anywhere. Check it out here.
It was designed by the same Italian architect who designed the Palazetto dello sport for the 1960 Rome Olympics. Look familiar?
Inside, the Scope isn’t much. It holds barely 10,000 for sporting events, boasts no luxury boxes to speak of and is basically a 1970’s era pit. But I still love it. How come no one builds sports venues with actual architectural merit anymore?
Oh and the name? No, they didn’t sell the naming rights to a mouthwash. Scope is short for kaleidoscope, a nod to the building’s multi-faceted uses.